STUFF!
So - Tomorrow is the first day of my garage sale. Boy! Do I have stuff to sell…? If I don’t get rid of all of my crap this weekend, I’ll have another one the following weekend. Than after all attempts of selling it have failed; off to the Salvation Army or Am-vets or one of the other places that will make good use of all my un-wanted stuff.
I’ve been thinking a lot about how we (I) am so attached to my possessions. As I go though all of my stuff I have stored in my garage and most of it I haven’t seen since I moved it the last time I moved. It occurred to me that many of those thinks are just things, what I really am doing is holding on to a physical part of my memories. My brother reminded me that I have always been a packrat ever since we were little kids.
But, I have decided to get rid of as much of my stuff as possible and avoid paying for a storage unit. So, I have made it my mission to do just that. Let’s see how I do. I believe that it’s a very possible goal. I have a friend that is loaning me her fifteen foot trailer that I’ll pack with the trash and haul it to the dump.
I once did all of my own concert work at my other two houses and I accumulated many of the tools to do such work. I had a twelve foot aluminum pole for the finishing work, a float, a tamper - to tamper down all of the gravel, many of the hand tools for edging, and so forth. I sold them for pennies to a friend. I really didn’t want to sell them, but Hey! I’d have to store them until I buy another house. That could be a couple of years. I really didn’t want to store stuff like that for no purpose. I believe that my friend would get good use of them and I wouldn’t have to store them. Beside, I might get a chance to use those tools again… I even told Cliff that when giving them to him.
I have a hobby cleaning and repairing vintage pachinko machines. I have eight of them and love to tinker with them. I’ve been really hard pressed about these. I don’t want to sell them; I don’t want them to go to anyone else. My only other alterative is to store them. I do have a small garage at the place I’m moving to, but I don’t want to start thinking that I can haul all of my stuff to there only to lose it in a pile of stuff. That is what I’m trying to avoid.
So, I have a few more things to think about and how to reduce my stuff to a manageable amount of stuff. I think that the hard part is over, deciding to get rid of stuff. For the past few weeks I have managed to sort and separate things into three basic piles. One is for selling off at the garage sell, another is for tools and useable things in my small garage where I am moving, and the other is off to the dump.
My two daughters insisted that we have a garage sell. I really didn’t want to go through that hassle and want to just put it into my truck and head for the Salvation Army. But, my youngest daughter told me that she had several boxes of toys and wanted to see if she could sell them. She told me that all of the money could go towards me buying another house. How sweet of her to think of me like that. So, I am thinking of placing the proceeds from this garage sell into this year’s vacation fund. I’m really planning on giving them the money to spend while on vacation. After all they are girls and they do love to spend their Daddy’s money.
Well, again it’s time for me to give it a rest and head to bed. After all tomorrow is Garage Sell day.
I’ve been thinking a lot about how we (I) am so attached to my possessions. As I go though all of my stuff I have stored in my garage and most of it I haven’t seen since I moved it the last time I moved. It occurred to me that many of those thinks are just things, what I really am doing is holding on to a physical part of my memories. My brother reminded me that I have always been a packrat ever since we were little kids.
But, I have decided to get rid of as much of my stuff as possible and avoid paying for a storage unit. So, I have made it my mission to do just that. Let’s see how I do. I believe that it’s a very possible goal. I have a friend that is loaning me her fifteen foot trailer that I’ll pack with the trash and haul it to the dump.
I once did all of my own concert work at my other two houses and I accumulated many of the tools to do such work. I had a twelve foot aluminum pole for the finishing work, a float, a tamper - to tamper down all of the gravel, many of the hand tools for edging, and so forth. I sold them for pennies to a friend. I really didn’t want to sell them, but Hey! I’d have to store them until I buy another house. That could be a couple of years. I really didn’t want to store stuff like that for no purpose. I believe that my friend would get good use of them and I wouldn’t have to store them. Beside, I might get a chance to use those tools again… I even told Cliff that when giving them to him.
I have a hobby cleaning and repairing vintage pachinko machines. I have eight of them and love to tinker with them. I’ve been really hard pressed about these. I don’t want to sell them; I don’t want them to go to anyone else. My only other alterative is to store them. I do have a small garage at the place I’m moving to, but I don’t want to start thinking that I can haul all of my stuff to there only to lose it in a pile of stuff. That is what I’m trying to avoid.
So, I have a few more things to think about and how to reduce my stuff to a manageable amount of stuff. I think that the hard part is over, deciding to get rid of stuff. For the past few weeks I have managed to sort and separate things into three basic piles. One is for selling off at the garage sell, another is for tools and useable things in my small garage where I am moving, and the other is off to the dump.
My two daughters insisted that we have a garage sell. I really didn’t want to go through that hassle and want to just put it into my truck and head for the Salvation Army. But, my youngest daughter told me that she had several boxes of toys and wanted to see if she could sell them. She told me that all of the money could go towards me buying another house. How sweet of her to think of me like that. So, I am thinking of placing the proceeds from this garage sell into this year’s vacation fund. I’m really planning on giving them the money to spend while on vacation. After all they are girls and they do love to spend their Daddy’s money.
Well, again it’s time for me to give it a rest and head to bed. After all tomorrow is Garage Sell day.